Can you let us know the plan here as most of the novels I am reading are suddenly becoming premium? Even ones not even appearing on any of the rankings for any criteria. If all novels but a few teasers are going to be called premium can you just let us know now that this will be your business model? I like many others that had been reading these novels on other platforms and heard that these novels wouldn’t be paywalled when moved here, whether that was ever true or not is not really the issue- I do not begrudge Qidian for making a platform that makes money. I do however would like to know what the end game looks like so I can decide now whether to invest my time and cash in something that will cost me a lot of both or find other sources of entertainment that are more economically suited to me. Like buying a book from amazon or (god for forbid) going to a library. Many of the novels here are 10x longer than they need to be to as editing doesn’t really exits in the Webnovel format. And I am not talking about proof reading- I am talking about professionally editing of content to make novels of quality.
As it is my choice to read here or not (I.e. spend my money and time here for a mostly flawed overpriced product (that is way too addictive!)), I again beseech Qidian to let us know now the business plan they are espousing so I can decide to move on or not. There are some very flawed diamonds here that need a lot of polish and I would pay a reasonable price to read quality novels; but for a pay as you go instead of a subscription model, for me, it won’t likely be economical.
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